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Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. Kelly mentioned the change to the one-stage process that was made last year. How does that work? How many homes have now been delivered through that new process?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is a big policy change, so it would be good to have that figure. I am interested in mixed tenure delivery. In my area, the Enniskerry Road development is delivering 155 homes, including 105 social homes and 50 cost rental. I am particularly interested in two aspects of the cost rental element. How much money is being provided from the serviced sites fund? How will that contribute to...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: And the management.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Tánaiste. This is great progress. It is not just about rural communities. In my town of Dún Laoghaire, 140,000 people live within ten minutes of a major urban town in the greater Dublin area, 34% of whom are under 30 and want to be in businesses driven by innovation and knowledge. George's Street, which is the main street, is 1.2 km long and has 264 shopfronts, many...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Tánaiste. Again, I appreciate his response and I go back to the climate imperative on using the structures we have, and there is a big opportunity to do so. The Tánaiste is absolutely right that we will have concrete retail spaces and new businesses, and we already see this coming into Dún Laoghaire and it is very exciting. We still have all of this vacancy and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress on the moves to ensure the option of remote working post-Covid-19; the details of his work with remote working hubs to enable greater flexibility in work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30106/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As we see light now at the end of the post-pandemic tunnel, we have all learned different ways of working. Will the Tánaiste update the House on progress to secure remote working for the future or the option of partial remote working for employees for the future? What steps have been taken to try to advance remote working hubs around the country? There is a big opportunity in my town...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment The number of loans approved for each State-backed loan scheme supported by his Department in Dún Laoghaire and Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30105/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending learner permits that are due to expire taking into consideration that there is a huge backlog of driver tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30369/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures put in place by her Department to protect pupils and staff against Covid-19 in primary and post-primary schools to ensure a reduction in the number of students being sent home to self-isolate as a result of becoming a close contact; if lateral flow testing is being considered by her to tackle this issue; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the revised relationship and sexual education programme being developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment for primary and post-primary schools; if this new programme will be rolled out in September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30287/21]

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We cannot have it both ways, but we can have a bit of balance. I have seen people outdoors all over my constituency in small groups. I thank Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the effort it has made to put in appropriate outdoor seating, to change the streetscape to accommodate restaurants to make it easier to have people outside in a structured way when they reopen and to put...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Local Authorities (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports and funding available to local authorities for litter and cleansing measures in particular in 2021 to facilitate an outdoor summer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29367/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire coastal community will benefit from off-shore infrastructure such as windfarms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29368/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 463 of 18 May 2021, if the site is located in the Booterstown-Blackrock school planning area as voted on during the patronage process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29530/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming today. It is very interesting and important to listen to all the contributions. I challenge the witnesses on what I see as some contradictions between the different statements in their contribution. I read Ireland's Future economic paper and I respect what is in it but as elected representatives on this committee, we also had the opportunity to listen to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Does Mr. Murphy think that we possibly do not understand the Good Friday Agreement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No, I did not suggest that. I suggested that it was not inevitable, whereas Mr. Murphy's language had it as being inevitable, and that it was one of a possible set of outcomes from a change conversation. I never said that a border poll was impossible, rather that it was one of several possibilities. It is also one part of an agreement which deals with a range of other issues concerning...